Uncover the fundamental elements of advanced care planning in a hospice environment with our online learning course, “Advance Care Planning: Hospice Advance Directives Training.” This succinct course equips you with the ability to define advanced care, navigate its processes, handle any arising challenges, comprehend the responsibility of health care representatives, and utilize these skills in real-life situations, thereby elevating your professional competence in delivering empathetic end-of-life care.

Skills You’ll Learn

• Understand Advance Care Planning: Grasp the basics of advance care planning and its significance in hospice care.
• Navigate Advance Directives: Learn to effectively identify and use various advance directive documents.
• Overcome Planning Obstacles: Discover strategies to address common challenges in advance care planning.
• Role of Healthcare Surrogates: Understand a healthcare surrogate’s crucial role and responsibilities.
• Applying Principles to Practice: Gain the ability to assist patients and families in advance care planning.
• Decision-Making Skills: Develop skills to make informed decisions about end-of-life care options.

Hospice Advance Directives Training Course Description

Introduction: Understanding the Basics

Advanced care planning is critical to healthcare, particularly in hospice and palliative care. This course introduces you to the foundational concepts of advance care planning, ensuring you understand its importance in respecting and advocating for a patient’s end-of-life wishes.

Section 1: The Advance Directive Process

Here, you’ll learn about advance directives, a pivotal legal document in healthcare decisions, especially for those seriously ill or facing dementia. You’ll explore various forms of advance directives, including living wills and durable power of attorney for health care.

Section 2: Overcoming Obstacles

Obstacles often hinder effective advance care planning. This section provides you with tools and techniques to overcome these challenges, enabling meaningful conversations with patients about their values, preferences, and goals of care.

Section 3: Healthcare Surrogates and Decision-Making

Understanding the role of healthcare surrogates is crucial. This course will guide you through selecting a surrogate, discussing treatment preferences, and ensuring decisions align with the patient’s values and wishes.

Section 4: Practical Application

Applying these principles is vital. This section offers scenarios and case studies to practice making healthcare decisions, understanding patient values, and how to have conversations with healthcare providers about care options.

Conclusion: Empowering Choices for End-of-Life Care

In the final section, you’ll learn how to ensure patient preferences are honored and respected. This includes guidance on documenting wishes, discussing treatment options, and understanding the legal aspects of advance directives.

How to Get Started with Hospice Advance Directives Training

The Hospice Advance Directives Training course is ideal for nurses, social workers, hospice aides, nursing home administrators, and anyone interested in advancing care planning in hospice care.

How to Start Training

Hospice Advance Directives Training is part of a yearly subscription to Continua Learning. Continua Learning delivers over 200 hospice training courses and aide in-services in a mobile solution for easy compliance and tracking it all from one place. Contact us to set up a demo for your agency today! Elevate your expertise. Enhance patient satisfaction.

Hospice Advance Directives Training Continuing Education

Hospice Advance Directives Training offers 1 Contact Hour for Nursing, Certified Nursing Assistants, Home Health, and Hospice Aides. Continua Learning is an approved provider of CEUs from the following boards:

• Florida Board of Nursing
• Florida Board Of Occupational Therapy
• Florida Board Of Speech – Language Pathology And Audiology
• Florida Board Of Nursing – Certified Nursing Assistants

Course Reviewer

Kathleen Webster, BSN, RN, CRRN, brings nearly four decades of nursing experience to her role. Earning her BSN in 1984 and CRRN in 2012, she began her career in acute rehabilitation and later specialized in hospice and home health care for over 25 years. 

A seasoned educator, Kathleen has authored numerous eLearning courses and led in-service training programs. As a former community care program director, she trained in-home aides and is committed to inspiring quality care and compassion in hospice and home care.

FAQ

What are Advance Directive Forms, and How Do They Relate to This Course?

Advance directive forms are legal documents that specify a person’s healthcare wishes. Our course provides detailed insights into these forms, explaining how to discuss and document treatment preferences and decisions about medical care, ensuring they are legally recognized and respected.

How Can This Course Help if I’m Dealing with a Seriously Ill Family Member?

For those with a seriously ill family member, this course offers valuable guidance on making healthcare decisions and understanding their wishes. It teaches you how to engage in meaningful conversations and use advance directives to advocate effectively on their behalf.

Is This Course Suitable for Understanding End-of-Life Decisions in Cases of Dementia?

Absolutely. This course covers critical aspects of advanced care planning, particularly relevant for dementia patients. You’ll learn to discuss and document their values and preferences, ensuring their end-of-life care aligns with their wishes.

Can Healthcare Providers Benefit from This Course?

Hospice providers will find this course immensely beneficial in understanding patients’ advance directives and ensuring their decisions about end-of-life care are well-informed and patient-centered. It’s ideal for fostering healthy aging and patient advocacy.

How Does This Course Address Emergency Medical Situations and DNR Orders?

Our course covers the essentials of decision-making in emergency medical situations, including understanding and respecting Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders. It emphasizes the importance of advance directives in such scenarios to ensure patient wishes are followed.